After the interview, Fang Yi returned home. It was estimated that the teacher had already gotten up, so he called the teacher's home. After chatting for a few words, the master and the apprentice transferred the chat from the phone to the Internet.
"Teacher! I can't go to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. I decided to go to the National School of Decoration." Through the video, Fang Yi said to Liu Hongshuo, a teacher in China.
Liu Hongshuo nodded slightly and asked, "Does the Decoration Academy like your style?".
"Yeah!" Fang Yi nodded and told Liu Hongshuo the interview process: "I was very enthusiastic during the interview. I think they valued and liked my style!".
"I understand, if you choose the School of Decoration, then go to the School of Decoration!" Liu Hongshuo looked at Fang Yi and said: "If you compare these two, I will also choose the School of Decoration! The School of Decoration also has some great teachers, such as color
Master Yves Sachnet, and design master Jean-Philippe Lancroy! Have they told you what grade you will be placed in?"
Fang Yi shook his head and said with a smile: "I didn't ask this at all! I don't think they will let me start reading from the first grade!".
"That's impossible. Generally, schools in France that have graduated in four years in China will arrange for you to study between the second and third grade. I guess you are still in the third grade. They appreciate your skills, which means they don't have to consider your basics.
, so it is reasonable to start reading from the third grade!”.
Fang Yi nodded after hearing the teacher's words.
"How are you living these days? If those works are of no use, just send them back! You are still staying at someone else's house, and it's not a big deal to have more than a dozen paintings placed there!" Liu Hongshuo asked Fang Yi.
road.
Fang Yi thought for a while and said: "It's not like copying all day long, and then painting your own paintings at night! That's basically it!".
After hearing this, Liu Hongshuo said to his disciple: "Don't copy all day long, take some time to attend more art exhibitions or salons or something like that! There are so many artists in Paris, you can always find works that make you shine or give you some insights.
!".
Fang Yi nodded after hearing this.
"By the way, how's your copying going? Whose works did you copy?" Liu Hongshuo asked casually.
Fang Yi said some people's names to the teacher, and then replied: "I'm doing pretty well! I just do whatever I like!".
"Then send back the paintings you copied! Let the stone art students also take a look." Liu Hongshuo opened his mouth and said. The old man knew that Fang Yi was right. Then the copy must be good. Fang Yi would not lie on this point.
After thinking about it for a while, I asked the students to send back the copied works and keep them for the students in their own class to copy and learn from.
After listening to the teacher's words, Fang Yi nodded and said: "Okay!".
The master and apprentice chatted for a while, and then Fang Yi remembered and said: "Bernard is going to hold an art exhibition soon, and Maximilian of Germany will also come!".
"I know this. It's not so convenient for me to have these two old boys so close together!" Liu Hongshuo sighed and said, "When I think of these two people, I think of the happy time in Paris!".
Looking at the teacher's expression, Fang Yi couldn't help but wonder: Does the teacher think of the girls from the past?
Liu Hongshuo told Fang Yi a few interesting things about Paris. They were nothing more than the three of them holding a painting exhibition on the side of the road, or wandering around Europe while working.
The master and apprentice chatted for a while. Liu Hongshuo went offline. Fang Yi called his studio again, chatted with his friends, and then looked at his two beloved dogs, Round Head and Flat Head.
Standing in front of Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People", Fang Yi looked at the painting he copied and frowned. It's not that Fang Yi's copying didn't look like it, but it looked very similar.
The staff all praised Fang Yi's copying.
This is the fourth painting! Fang Yi thought in his mind that his experience bar has not improved after copying the fourth painting. Now the experience bar of the subject's advancement in his mind is completely stuck at 95%, which is still far from the master.
A mere 5% difference. But now it's not even as fast as before, and it's completely stopped here without moving at all.
Another thing is making rapid progress. There are more and more artists in the chain of souls. Delacroix, who was very prominent before, was halfway through Fang Yi's copy of the first painting "Liberty Leading the People".
It jumped into the frame of Chain of Souls, which means that now Fang Yi can use the technique of this romantic lion to express it on his canvas.
Hey! Fang Yi sighed softly. Then he took down the paintings from his easel, turned around and went out and put the paintings he had just finished in the car. Fang Yi couldn't shovel these paintings and start over again, because
These Dongfang Yi wanted to be shipped back to China. The teacher Liu Hongshuo asked him to transport the copied paintings back to China and leave them for stone art students to view and copy.
After returning the painting to the car, Fang Yi simply changed his mind and took out a piece of sketch paper, ready to go back and continue copying the sketches of the masters.
As soon as I took out the paper, I heard a voice saying "Hi~!" from behind me.
He turned around and saw a white couple in their fifties standing three or four meters away from them, smiling at them and waving their hands.
"Hello!" Fang Yi nodded to the two and greeted them in French.
"Use English, or you can speak Spanish!" The old man said as he watched Fang Yi take two steps forward and stretched out his hand to Fang Yi.
Fang Yi shook hands with this person: "Let's use English!" Although Fang Yi could guess some words, he could understand some Spanish, but he couldn't speak it smoothly.
The old man introduced himself, and then said directly to Fang Yi: "Just now we saw the painting "Liberty Leading the People" that you copied in it. We liked this painting very much, and people in the museum also said that your copy was very good. Now.
I just happened to see you, so I took the liberty to ask, can you sell that painting to me?"
Fang Yi thought about it for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry! This painting has been ordered by someone! I can't sell it to you." Fang Yi didn't mean that he couldn't sell it, mainly because of the price! A couple who came to travel
And I am still a relatively layman, how much can I pay? I am afraid it is 400 to 500 euros at most. How can Fang Yi sell the paintings he copied for 400 to 500 euros? This is an estimate!
It took almost twenty days to copy one stroke after another, and he also used such expensive paints. Just for the cost he spent, Fang Yi felt that it was more than this price. Besides, he didn't have that much money with the couple he just met.
A friendship!
Sure enough, the old man said to Fang Yi: "We can pay 300 euros!".
Fang Yi continued to refuse with a smile: "Someone really ordered this painting, I can't sell it to you!".
After hearing this, the old man stopped talking. Instead, he shook his head and said regretfully, "Excuse me!" After saying that, he smiled at Fang Yi, nodded, and left with his wife.
For an old man, spending three hundred euros to buy a painting copied by a young man is already a good price. The old man and his wife also heard that Fang Yilin was good and wanted to buy it and hang it at home as a decoration! Three hundred euros
For a copy of a work by an unknown person, it was a very good price. How could I have imagined that the young man in front of me was not a poor painter with hundreds of thousands of euros in his pocket.
Watching the couple leave, this incident reminded Fang Yi that he should go to galleries in France to prepare to sell his works! Although the subject in his mind has not yet reached the master level, but
Which artist only sells his works when he is a master? Shouldn't he improve while selling his paintings and make a living by painting? Besides, it's not a problem for me that I can't let the light in and out in France!
Fang Yi was immersed in the museum all day, unable to think of much in his mind. Fang Yi had almost forgotten all the things he wanted to do in China. At that time, he just learned that the teacher had paid for his collection of his works, and Fang Yi
I made up my mind to make a name for myself in Europe, so that the works collected by my teacher would be worth the price, so that they would be priced at a price that can be bought in Europe!
For Fang Yi, it doesn’t matter how much these things cost. He just wants to tell the teacher who always loves him in this way: I did not let you down! This is also the main reason why Fang Yi did not take back the teacher’s collection of his works! He bought it at that time
I have made up my mind to double the number of my works collected by my teacher!
Thinking of this, Fang Yi put his creation back on the schedule, and at the same time, he began to think about how to go to Paris galleries to promote his works.
"Copy the last work again!" Fang Yi said to himself: "If there is no progress, then the focus of my life will return to creation!" After saying that, Fang Yi put down his hand.
sketch paper, picked up a prepared picture frame and walked towards the museum.
After the failure of the previous few paintings, Fang Yi directly changed his method and copied only the pieces of the master's works that he was interested in, one piece from this master, one piece from that master, and sometimes he simply transformed it. Of course, after entering the soul
Fang Yi, the artist in the chain, has no interest in copying it. What's the point of copying it when he can draw it!
It took Fang Yi a full week and a half to paint the entire canvas, but the experience bar in his mind still made no progress at all. Looking at his canvas, Fang Yi sighed and whispered in Chinese: "It seems that the light
I won’t be able to reach the master level just by copying!”.
The moment he put down the brush, Fang Yi understood that there was no way he could complete the 5% experience bar just by copying.
It can be said that Fang Yi has basically gone through all the technical aspects that he can do. In terms of painting techniques, Fang Yi is no less than any painter in the world. Now Fang Yi truly realizes,
The biggest problem I face is innovation! Whether it is technical or ideological innovation, perhaps only in this way can we cross the five percent threshold! Become an art master recognized by what is in your own mind!
To understand this, the large-scale copying stage in Fang Yi's life, or the period of worship and crazy pursuit of techniques, has officially ended!